Predictors of hypoglycemia in insulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Basrah

Table 7 Results of logistic regression showing significant predictors of hypoglycemia in the last 3 mo

	B	Sig.	Exp (B)
Significant predictors
Residence	-0.247	0.030	0.782
Knowledge of hypoglycemia symptoms	1.133	0.044	3.104
Availability of SMBG	-0.599	0.030	0.550
Frequency of SMBG	-0.228	0.031	0.796
PNP	-1.391	0.002	0.249
Diastolic blood pressure	-0.046	0.013	0.955
Systolic blood pressure	0.020	0.053	1.020
HbA1c	0.153	0.021	1.165
Non-significant predictors
Age	0.002	0.960	1.002
Gender	-0.425	0.200	0.654
Education	0.067	0.505	1.069
Duration of DM	-0.019	0.42	0.981
Frequency of insulin administration/d	-0.381	0.259	0.683
Dose of regular insulin	-0.021	0.215	0.979
Dose of premix insulin	-0.027	0.305	0.974
Dose of NPH	-0.022	0.429	0.979
A total dose of insulin	0.018	0.148	1.018
Mobility	0.117	0.440	1.124
HTN	0.594	0.117	1.811
IHD	-0.758	0.081	0.469
CKD	0.307	0.614	1.359
BMI	0.033	0.208	1.033

SMBG: Self-monitoring of blood glucose; HbA1c: Hemoglobin A1c; HTN: Hypertension; IHD: Ischemic heart diseases; CKD: Chronic kidney disease; PNP: Peripheral neuropathy; BMI: Body mass index; DM: Diabetes mellitus; NPH: Neutral protamine hagedorn.